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solea1 -> RE: I'm learning Solea falsetas- what goes in between them? (May 10 2014 23:26:46)
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Hi, Ricardo -- thanks for your response, and the constant stream of good advice and experience you share with everyone in this foro.
I don't understand jazz, but I assumed that the giants could go out onto the Brooklyn Bridge at midnight and blow great new horn music that the world had never heard before and in fact would never hear at all. (Was it Coltrane who allegedly did that?)
I got that impression partly from the guitarist who tried to explain Paco's really advanced music in the late eighties. He had learned his first Paco stuff in Russia. He said it was really hard to find a recording, but he finally got one, so he learned it and...
"Wait a minute," I said. "I've had all his recordings for years, and still don't understand the new stuff at all."
He said, "Well, I was a jazz guitarist, and next to jazz, everything else is baby talk."
I loved that whole idea, and figured those jazz guys didn't need any shortcuts or bags of tricks. It's disillusioning but comforting to learn that they are not "unconfoundable" (to mistranslate a Spanish notion.)
Ricardo, you are absolutely right that one can take reasonable exception to every point I make. Sometimes I even do it to myself. I love all the arguments, and consider them part of the pleasure of flamenco.
(In Spain, I'm often called a racist for a bias toward Gypsy artists and styles, and a Taliban for doubting that fresh flamenco is better than the stale stuff I understand.)
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